Hello everyone !
I am a newbie in terms of Computer as well as in Linux. With the help of my cousin, I had replaced my previously Windows 8.1 by Lint Mint Cinnamon 18.1 (Sanya). Now, whenever I click on 'My Computer' then I get these 3 drives in which the first one is 'SAMSUNG HM120JI' [attachment]Drives.png[/attachment]. But the problem is it shows 'Unable to mount location & Can't mount file' whenever I try to open it. What should I do to mount and open this ? Please help in out in this query. I will be attaching the images of 'My Drives' along with 'Error' I am getting.
Unable to mount Hardrive.
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Unable to mount Hardrive.
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Re: Unable to mount Hardrive.
Hello, BKM.
Just checked here on Ubuntu 16.04.3, on which Linux Mint 18.x is based:
Filemanager Nautilus does not display the whole harddisk object. So I do not run the risk of trying to mount what cannot be mounted.
On Linux, you do not mount drives or disks; you mount filesystems.
The third item from the top in your first screenshot reads "File System". This is the filesystem on your Samsung harddisk. This filesystem has already been mounted. You can click on it and you will see its content.
You cannot mount this already mounted filesystem a second time by clicking on the harddisk object Samsung HM120JI. I admit the error message is not particularly helpful, because it leaves its reader clueless. No system failure. The disk is already in use. A filesystem on the disk has already been mounted.
Best regards,
Karl
Just checked here on Ubuntu 16.04.3, on which Linux Mint 18.x is based:
Filemanager Nautilus does not display the whole harddisk object. So I do not run the risk of trying to mount what cannot be mounted.
On Linux, you do not mount drives or disks; you mount filesystems.
The third item from the top in your first screenshot reads "File System". This is the filesystem on your Samsung harddisk. This filesystem has already been mounted. You can click on it and you will see its content.
You cannot mount this already mounted filesystem a second time by clicking on the harddisk object Samsung HM120JI. I admit the error message is not particularly helpful, because it leaves its reader clueless. No system failure. The disk is already in use. A filesystem on the disk has already been mounted.
Best regards,
Karl
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Re: Unable to mount Hardrive.
Not by default sincekarlchen wrote:Just checked here on Ubuntu 16.04.3, on which Linux Mint 18.x is based:
Filemanager Nautilus does not display the whole harddisk object.
Computer
on the side panel now points to /.You can only get the old Computer listings of disks and mounted filesystems by running:
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nautilus computer://
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Re: Unable to mount Hardrive.
But how can I excess my File system like I used to excess on my 'Windows 8'. Is there any alternate file manager app to this where I can get back my old style of accessing files ?
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Re: Unable to mount Hardrive.
If you're looking for something with a look and feel similar to Windows Explorer, then I highly recommend you look into Gnome-Commander.BKM wrote:But how can I excess my File system like I used to excess on my 'Windows 8'. Is there any alternate file manager app to this where I can get back my old style of accessing files ?
It is a two-panel file manager equivalent and is available in the repos.
Good Luck
Re: Unable to mount Hardrive.
Is your windows partition encrypted?BKM wrote:But how can I excess my File system like I used to excess on my 'Windows 8'. Is there any alternate file manager app to this where I can get back my old style of accessing files ?
- if yes, then you should decrypt it, or try this https://superuser.com/questions/376533/ ... e-in-linux
As far as I can remember, I have had some problem with mounting ntfs partition marked as corrupted/not clean.
Try to check and repair the partition from windows.